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This article is from a text prepared by the “Social Committee for Learning” (SKN), an unofficial organization of scholars established in Poland after the imposition of martial law. The membership of SKN is secret, but is believed to include some leading members of the Polish Academy of Science.
Amino acid analysis by ion exchange chromatography is just as important an analytical tool in 1986 as it was in the late 1950s, when Moore and Stein first described an automated AAA instrument.
Spurred on by advances in liquid chromatography and derivative chemistry, amino acid analysis systems are beginning to make their mark. Here is a sampling of amino acid specialists along with all-purpose separation supplies.